Vince from Spazzzdic Musings shared an email with me - I won't detail it here because if Vince wants to post it, he will - that brought up the issue of conspiracy theories and 9/11.
Right after 9/11 happened, more than a few people quietly raised the question with me, "Do you think everything we saw and heard was real?" Oh, the death and destruction was certainly real; no one is questioning that. But even on the day it happened, some things did not exactly seem quite right. The notably few stories - just a few - ever published about a plane flying so low before it hit the Pentagon. The big screen they put up around the Pentagon attack position. The pictures of the aftermath that did not quite look like a plane hit it. And a casual remark by one Pentagon worker who stated that the funny thing was that the expanse of grass in front of the point of impact showed no wheel marks - and we learned it had to have touched the ground before it hit.
Then there was the plane that went down in Pennsylania. The early reports it was shot down that the government then pretended it did not say. The strangeness of the debris field. The government's fierce lie about the reason the plane went down was because the "Let's Roll" team subdued the hijackers and brought the plane down so it wouldn't go into the White House (that destination also turned out to be a lie) even when evidence showed that this was not quite what happened.
Then there's the whole issue of the literally hundreds of different security measures that ALL had to fail that day to allow all of those missions to succeed. Then the incredible reluctance by the Bushies to allow a citizen's investigation, followed by his appointment of Kissinger - Mr Top Secret t0 head the panel when it was already known Kissinger had conflicts of interest.
My mind had changed substantially from my strong refusals to believe 9/11 was anything more than the horror it appeared to be. I do not know how much was faked - not faked in the sense of it not happening, although I question the Pentago situation strongly but faked in the sense of the the government's version of "facts" - but I know 9/11's true story of who was behind it is not something we currently know. Perhaps we never will, and that is almost more terrible than the loss and terror of that day itself.
It literally breaks my heart - and this is not hyperbole on my part - to believe our government was complicit in the deaths of so many people, but I do now believe that. Too much makes no sense. And there would have be no need to massively control the media, as the Bushies did, unless you needed the media to shut up about anything that wasn't kosher.
But here is what I know believe:
There are a group of people within the US - and almost certainly within the top echelons of our government - who knew about 9/11 beforehand, helped orchestrate the failures of security systems on that day, and have carefully controlled the story, the message after the fact.
Also, 9/11 had to happen to have what the Bushies needed: an American so terrified they would go along with anything, so terrified they would suspect their neighbors, meet any notes of dissent with death threats and forced silence, ignore what the US was doing to others. Since 9/11, these same persons have used fears about another attack to manipulate everything from budget and the supposed checks and balances of Capitol Hill, to our responses; they've cooked war, bankrupted the country, removed freedoms promised to us by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
